Creator hints at new Ecco The Dolphin game

The original designer and musician behind Mega Drive classic Ecco The Dolphin have tweeted that they’re teaming up again, and in talks with Sega about a new game.

Flippin’ great news

It may not be the first Sega classic that comes to most fans’ minds as needing a reboot, but it looks like unusual underwater adventure Ecco The Dolphin may be getting a new sequel – with creator Ed Annunziata tweeting the following over the weekend:Ecco fans, I need you to follow & tweethank @scottfoe, he convinced SEGA to meet with me now chances of a new Ecco the Dolphin x100!

Annunziata later tweeted the following extra detail:Spencer is on board! (puttn’ the band back together!) :)

The Spencer in question is Spencer Nielsen, the musician behind the much admired soundtrack of the original game, which suggests that the new title will stick pretty close to the original in terms of tone if not gameplay.The original Mega Drive game was released in 1992 and is available on everything from the Virtual Console to Steam and various Sega compilations. It featured exceptionally good music and graphics for the time, as well as largely non-violent gameplay – as you controlled Ecco around a punishingly difficult maze of corral and underwater ruins.A sequel and edutainment game followed, and then in 2000 Ecco the Dolphin: Defender Of The Future for the Dreamcast. Unusually all the games were created by the same developer: Hungarian studio Appaloosa Interactive (née Novotrade International).The Dreamcast game wasn’t a hit though and a sequel was cancelled. Appaloosa then went on to repurpose the same basic gameplay for 2006’s Jaws Unleashed, but that wasn’t a big seller either.To find out they they’re getting another shot with the franchise is certainly a surprise, but with no more details to go on it’s impossible to tell whether it’s a big budget 3D release or a downloadable 2D adventure like the originals.